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| | Liberty Post |
 | | China to buy the moon From: Agence France-Presse From correspondents in Beijing October 21, 2005 A COMPANY has set up operations in China to sell land on the moon for 289 yuan ($45) an acre, cashing in on renewed interest in space travel after the successful five-day voyage of Shenzhou VI. |
 | | Post-1949 China had to ensure for itself Mutual Assured Destruction (that is, if one country nuked another, the attacked country would be destroyed except for its hidden means of nuclear retaliation, and these would destroy the attacker) which required nuclear bombs and warheads as well as the means of their global delivery. |
 | | On October 16, 1964, China tested its first nuclear weapon, which was followed by 24 tests, including the test of a thermonuclear bomb, equivalent to 4 million tons of TNT (trinitrotoluene) and dropped by a test bomber on November 17, 1976. |
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